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Re: guile-gobject/g-wrap status update
- From: Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue dot org>
- To: Andreas Rottmann <a dot rottmann at gmx dot at>
- Cc: guile-gtk at sources dot redhat dot com, guile-gtk-general at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 10:34:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: guile-gobject/g-wrap status update
- References: <87y8vy7tey.fsf@alice.rotty.yi.org>
Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> writes:
> [BTW: There seem to be two guile-gtk mailing lists ATM - I guess
> people should migrate to the one at GNU...]
>
> I'm ATM working at implementing "glueless" wrapping for g-wrap,
> i.e. instead of using a dedicated C wrapper for each wrapped function
> creating an applicable smob that invokes a general marshaller which in
> turn calls the C function via libffi.
Interesting. A couple of questions come to mind. First, how portable
is libffi? Will it cover all the existing architectures? Also, do we
know what the overhead's likely to be? I suppose the performance
argument could go either way when comparing to the existing approach
since the existing one-function-per-wrapper approach may well have
poorer interactions with the memory hierarchy. In any case, I do want
to preserve the ability for people who want to, to be able to have
close to minimal ffcall overhead using g-wrap. When calling from
interpreted languages, you may have a lot more leeway before you
noticably affect performance, but in the long run, I'm hoping guile
will also provide some form of compilation.
On a related front, I've decided to just use CVS at savannah, so I
should be setting that up over the next week (plus or minus -- I have
family coming to visit). It also probably makes sense to have a place
where those interested can discuss "what should happen next" with
g-wrap. I'm happy to have that discussion on an existing list if that
would be appropriate, or to create a new one. I've had some ideas I'd
like to discuss, and to compare and contrast (to the extent that they
overlap) with the above.
Thanks
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu
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